Re: [hybi] 64-bit comment

Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Wed, 21 July 2010 07:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] 64-bit comment
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On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Erik Möller wrote:
>
> [43. Let expected be the MD5 fingerprint of challenge as a big-endian 128 bit
> string. [RFC1321]]
> 
> A comment on the 64-bit issue of that code could be helpful I think. If you're
> just trying WebSockets on for size and do a simple server you're likely just
> going to use the code from rfc1321 to calculate the Md5 and it's pretty easy
> to miss the fact that it contains the following definition:
> 
> /* UINT4 defines a four byte word */
> typedef unsigned long int UINT4;
> 
> Works fine on 32-bit OS and LLP64 (i.e. Win64) but on any other 64-bit OS
> that's going to typedef UINT4 to be 8 bytes which will happily compile without
> errors but will produce an incorrect hash.

I'm very happy to include a note here, what text would you suggest?

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